LiveScience has more on the entirely new, bright-edged circular objects, the so-called “odd radio circles” or ORCs that astronomers are struggling to figure out:
… Read the rest “Radio telescopes have spotted four very strange… things.”In a new
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The title here is the best I could render from the middle German “Hier Inn etliche zerbrochne Gebew, den Schreinern in eingelegter Arbeit dienstlich, auch vil andern… Read the rest “Science Art: From Here, a number of broken gifts for the carpenters and lovers…., by Lorenz Stöer, 1567.”
Scientific American analyzes the rise in LSD use and finds that it’s probably an attempt to lighten up – or at least get a new perspective – on a reality that’s gotten… Read the rest “LSD use is rising among older folks – and it’s probably because people are looking for a way out. Even if it’s way out.”
Ireland’s RTÉ Brainstorm reveals how researchers are turning ordinary personal computers into a virus-killing supercomputer and recruiting gamers to solve puzzles that figure… Read the rest “Turning the virus into a videogame.”
Scientific American organizes some notes on the neurology of scent, with experiments that show the brain distinguishes between similar scents in the same way we hear notes of a song –… Read the rest “Smell makes music inside our brains. Each aroma, a different melody.”
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A brain with its structures, including the eyes and the olfactory bulb, labeled in Russian.
The thinking part.
Found on Wikimedia Commons.
Scientific American has an unexpected explanation for the mysterious interstellar object dubbed “‘Oumuamua” that drifted into our solar system in 2017. Maybe the monolithic… Read the rest “Maybe ‘Oumuamua was a hydrogen iceberg. Not a comet. Not an asteroid. Hydrogen.”
The Lancet looks at pandemic spread in the U.S. and finds that the places that seem to respond the best took precautions and stayed home before there were any government policies in place … Read the rest “Best COVID outcomes were where people stayed home on their own, cell phone data shows.”
Nature has some good news about an infectious disease – the outbreak that had killed 2,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be over, thanks to a new vaccine:
… Read the rest “The world’s second-deadliest Ebola outbreak just ended.”“We
A water bear from Bermuda, as published in 1970 (a good time to be in Bermuda). Florarctus antillensis was apparently first discovered in the coral sands of Curacao, also… Read the rest “Science Art: Florarctus antillensis Van Der Land 1968, from “Tardigrades marins des Bermudes,” 1970”
Nature looks into a new push to build a really big (and really expensive) machine to work with really small particles:
… Read the rest “CERN is building a supercollider 100 km around.”CERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular
SONG: “Satellite of Love” (a penitential cover). (I also made an .ogg version.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This has no scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for … Read the rest “SONG: Satellite of Love (penitential cover)”
SONG: “Cluster Anatomy”. (I made an .ogg version, too.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Science News, 2 June 2020, “A new 3-D map illuminates the ‘little brain’ within the heart… Read the rest “SONG: Cluster Anatomy”
Wired reveals a garment that doesn’t exactly make its wearer invisible, but makes it harder for an AI system – like those used in CCTV systems worldwide – to identify … Read the rest “This T-shirt conceals you from digital surveillance.”
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Wikimedia Commons’ description of this average-looking guy simply reads: The man in this image does not exist. This face was constructed by a GAN program.
The licensing… Read the rest “Science Art: StyleGAN2 Example 2, Jan 2020”
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